Beyond description : anthropologies of explanation
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Beyond description : anthropologies of explanation
Cornell University Press, 2023
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"A survey of forms of explanation in social anthropology and ethnographic accounts of explanation to be found in areas of religion, medicine, politics, and economics"-- Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Introduction: Ethnographies of explanation and the explanation of ethnography / Matei Candea and Paolo Heywood
- Are there anthropological problems? / Paolo Heywood
- On anthropological findings / Tanya M. Luhrmann
- On (not) explaining the domestic miracle / Jon Bialecki
- Emergent explanation / Matei Candea and Thomas Yarrow
- Bourdieu, the demystifying power of individualism, and the crisis of anthropology / Gildas Salmon, translated by Nicolas Carter
- The economic explanation / Richard Staley
- Anthropological explanation by virtue of individual worldviews and the case of Stanley Spencer / Nigel Rapport
- Explaining post-truth / Jonathan Mair
- Finding real and fake explanations / Sarah Green
- Explaining mindfulness in political advocacy / Joanna Cook
- Explaining the politics of the author / Adam Reed